Active supply chain attack across NPM, PyPI, and Crates. io
Socket@SocketSecurity🚨 BREAKING: Active supply chain attack across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io. Socket detected TrapDoor, a crypto stealer campaign hitting 34 malicious packages and 384 versions and artifacts, with attackers repeatedly pushing new releases across ecosystems. TrapDoor targets security developers, stealing wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub tokens, browser data, env vars, and API keys.
- ▪Socket@SocketSecurity🚨 BREAKING: Active supply chain attack across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io.
- ▪Socket detected TrapDoor, a crypto stealer campaign hitting 34 malicious packages and 384 versions and artifacts, with attackers repeatedly pushing new releases across ecosystems.
- ▪TrapDoor targets security developers, stealing wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub tokens, browser data, env vars, and API keys.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 20 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Record
| Original publisher | X (formerly Twitter) |
| Canonical URL | https://twitter.com/socketsecurity/status/2058565153138844043 |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 16:54:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T17:07:33.664Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T17:07:33.664Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | FIf84Iq-mfpW · 6 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Socket@SocketSecurity🚨 BREAKING: Active supply chain attack across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io. Socket detected TrapDoor, a crypto stealer campaign hitting 34 malicious packages and 384 versions and artifacts, with attackers repeatedly pushing new releases across ecosystems. TrapDoor targets security developers, stealing wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub tokens, browser data, env vars, and API keys. Socket detected releases with a median detection time of 5 minutes, 27 seconds.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at X (formerly Twitter).
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